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Walk · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Groove K
105 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIMS1BC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walk on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-54, snare through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-95, 97-106 and 144-146 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Walk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 55, 56, 96, 107, 108 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- M, I, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-57 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walk?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Walk hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Walk?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 55, 56, 96, 107, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED